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"Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters in ""Backstory 5"", focusing on the 1990s. The thirteen featured writers - Albert Brooks, Jean-Claude Carriere, Nora Ephron, Ronald Harwood, John Hughes, David Koepp, Richard LaGravenese, Barry Levinson, Eric Roth, John Sayles, Tom Stoppard, Barbara Turner, and Rudy Wurlitzer - are not confined to the 1990s, but their engrossing, detailed, and richly personal stories create, in McGilligan's words, 'a snapshot of a profession in motion'. Emphasizing the craft of writing and the process of collaboration, this new volume looks at how Hollywood is changing to meet new economic and creative challenges. ""Backstory 5"" explores how these writers come up with their ideas, how they go about adapting a stage play or work of fiction, how they organize and structure their work, and much more."

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McGilligan has done a great service by compiling ... interviews with screenwriters... Their thoughts on the filmmaking process, and their candid stories about experiences in the trenches, make for good reading and valuable reference. --Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy Illuminating ... I've long found Pat's Backstory volumes a treasury of information about Hollywood's craft practices. Every conversation yields ideas about structure, style, and working methods. --David Bordwell Blog Intelligent talk on writing, filmmaking and the movie industry. --Expressmilwaukee.com

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Patrick McGilligan, who teaches film at Marquette University, edited the previous four volumes of Backstory, all published by UC Press. He is the author of many books about film, including Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light and the New York Times Notable Book, George Cukor: A Double Life.

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